National Senators Want An Investigation Of How Amazon Treats Its Pregnant Workers Lawmakers urged the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to investigate in a letter signed by Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and 3 others. Alina Selyukh
Health Democrats Slam Amazon For Promoting False COVID Cures And Anti-Vaccine Claims Democratic lawmakers are pressing the ecommerce giant about what it's doing to stop stop its systems from recommending books and other products with falsehoods about the pandemic and vaccines. Shannon Bond
National Amazon Alabama Warehouse Workers May Get To Vote Again On Union A federal labor official found that Amazon's anti-union tactics may have tainted the spring's voting process sufficiently to scrap its results. Workers had rejected unionization more than two-to-one. Alina Selyukh Stephan Bisaha
Politics Seattle politics enter a new frontier this week Stop me if you've heard this one: A couple of billionaires launch themselves into suborbital space. Paige Browning Katie Campbell
Technology Internet Outage That Crashed Dozens Of Websites Caused By Software Update Amazon, Delta and Capital One were among dozens of sites hit by the widespread outage. Content distribution network Akamai says the disruption was caused by a software configuration update. Deepa Shivaram
National Bezos Landed, Thanked Amazon Workers And Shoppers For Paying, Gave Away $200 Million Jeff Bezos gave $100 million each in "courage and civility awards" to CNN's Van Jones and chef José Andrés. Alina Selyukh
National An Amazon Delivery Driver Killed A Spider For A Grateful Customer. There's A Video Terrified of the "huge" spider on her porch, a woman used Amazon's special instructions section to ask her delivery driver to kill it. He did, and now she's trying to find him to say, "Thank you." Josie Fischels
National U.S. Consumer Agency Sues Amazon To Force A Recall Of Potentially Hazardous Products The Consumer Product Safety Commission said the giant online retailer had to accept responsibility for the potentially unsafe products listed on its platform and recall them. Joe Hernandez
Politics Pentagon Scraps $10 Billion Contract With Microsoft, Bitterly Contested By Amazon The Defense Department canceled its $10 billion cloud contract called JEDI, planning instead to hire multiple vendors. Amazon sued after its loss to Microsoft, seeking to depose Donald Trump. Alina Selyukh
Business Jeff Bezos Built Amazon 27 Years Ago. He Now Steps Down As CEO At Critical Time Bezos is handing day-to-day duties to his longtime deputy Andy Jassy but will continue to hold considerable sway as executive chairman. Bobby Allyn
